NEW DELHI – British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled new heights — once again — by reaching the summit of Mount Everest for a record-breaking 19th time as a non-Sherpa climber. The 51-year ...

A British minister has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in just five days, thanks to a special gas that dramatically cut his prep time and allowed him to make a record-breaking ascent.

Raised among climbers and trekkers, he began working as a trekking guide in 2017, summiting Everest for the first time two years later. Since then, he has reached the summit four times from Nepal ...

Nearly two years ago, U.S. climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson were first to conquer the route, a feat that took 19 days.

The world has a fascination with Mount Everest – one that brings both money and destruction to Nepal's Himalayan region. Now, ...

The summit photo showed a not-so-happy-looking kid wrapped in mountain clothes too big for him, flanked by two adults holding ...

By limiting time spent at Base Camp, the team reduced the typical expedition's carbon footprint by a third and cut food consumption and human waste to just 10% of a standard ascent.

A central Illinois man climbed out of the regions corn and soy fields to summit the tallest mountain in the world — with his ...

I'm sure those Xenon climbers will want a "fastest" Everest record, too. Norgay: For those kinds of people, the records might mean something, but on a bigger scale, I don't think they mean anything.

With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan ...

At the microscopic scale, where particles act like billiard balls, time is reversible. Newton’s equations predict both where a particle comes from and where it’s going. The future is not fundamentally ...